Transom-opener.



No. 802,063. PATBNTBD 00T. 17, 1905.

G. G. WEIL.

TRANSOM OPENER.

APPLI IIIIIIIIIIII AN. 2 8 1 9 0 5.

UNITED STATES `PATIENT onnron.

TRANSONl-OPENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented oct. 1'7, 1905.

Application led January 28, 1905. Serial No. 243.158.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern;

Beitknown that I. GEORGE CONRAD WEIL, a citizen of' the United States,residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTransom-Openers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to adevice for opening, closing, and lockingtransoms, the object of the invention being to provide a device of thischaracter which shall be cheap, simple, durable and easily operated, andespecially one in which the mechanism shall be all or nearly allconcealed from view.

The invention resides in the novel construction, combination, andarrangement of parts for the above ends hereinafter fully specified, andparticularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a doorequipped with my device, parts of the casing being broken away to showthe construction. Fig. 2 is a broken perspective view of the deviceitself detached. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the shaft of thedevice. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section through the clamping-handle. Fig.5 is a View similar to Fig. 4 of a modification.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a door, 2 the jamb therefor, and3 the transom, hinged at its loweredge, as shown at 4. In one side ofthe transom-frame is secured a slotted plate l5, in which slot slidesthe inwardly-bent end notched at each side, as shown at 6, of alever-arm 7, extending from the end of a horizontal shaft 8, having itsbearing in the door-jamb. On the squared outer end 9 of said shaft 8 issecured the end of the other arm 1() of the lever, which extendsrearwardly behind the door-casing 20, slotted as shown at 2l, the outerend of which arm is pivoted to the upper end of a long link 11, which ispivoted at its lower end to a sliding bar 12, passing through a slot 13in a fixed plate 14 on the casing 20, said bar 12 carrying two washers15 16, one on each side of said plate 14. Upon the threaded outer end ofthe bar 12 is screwed a knob 17, and when the bar has been moved up ordown in the slotted plate 14 to any desired position it is locked insuch position by screwing in the knob, which draws together the twowashers 15 16 and clamps them upon the plate 14.

In Fig. 5 is shown a modification in which the transom is mounted upontrunnions 18, one of which extends through the door-jamb inthe samemanner as the shaft 8 and carries on its outer end the arm 10, operatedin like manner as before.

I claim- In combination with a transom and a doorjamb extending upwardby the side ofthe transom, a shaft through said jamb opposite to saidtransom and operatively connected therewith, a slotted door-casingadjacent to said jamb, an arm extending from the end of said shaftbehind said casing, a bar passing through the slot inV the casing, andmeans connected GEORGE CONRAD WEIL.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS M. WRIGHT, Bnssin GORFINKEL.

